– The Hack Bar: A cafe created by Arabeschi di Latte with Bibendum Food Experience, serving cinema and bar classics with a twist.

– The Corn Kiosk: Hack of the classic popcorn kiosk, turning popcorn into real dishes. Piles of corn are ready to be spiced up with fresh and dried condiments, from bacon to sage, from dried tomatoes to charcoal.

In the Galleria Manzoni, a classic shopping arcade is brought to life with a multitude of boutiques, some created by Tom Dixon to highlight the newest products, some curated or collaborated on with his friends.

– the Haberdashery shop with the new Super-Texture range

– A Rubber Shop curated by tyre giant Pirelli and Italian motorcycle manufacturer Moto Guzzi – showcasing for the first time a Tom Dixon x Moto Guzzi bike and limited-edition tyres designed by Tom.

Also in The Rubber Shop: handmade chewing gum performances will be created by Arabeschi di Latte with London based Mexican designer Fernando Laposse.

In this shop Tom Dixon veterans are coming home and sit in a collector’s environment.

– Leading home sound system Sonos

– In the Office, Tom Dixon Workspace collections including Slab desks, Boom lights and Y chairs, are put to use.

Several Y chairs have been customised by Rag a Muf, a new Finnish textiles manufacturer. The covers and handmade by Syrian refugee women from textile surplus and can be stretch over a variety of chairs and sofa.

And also, last but not least, and Ikea shop where is presented Delaktig, a ‘living-platform’ designed by Tom for the Swedish brand.

Throughout Milan design festival, Ikea will run a Film Festival in the huge MULTIPLEX Cinema.

Exclusive movies about creativity and radical design will be shown several times a day, as well as feature films on ‘Date Nights’. The Film Festival is free and open to all.

Tom Dixon and Moto Guzzi presented the Tomoto motorcycle in one room of Dixon’s massive Multiplex exhibition – a showcase of new design by Dixon and several handpicked small studios, which took over the 1950s Teatro Manzoni cinema durin Milan Design Week.

This year, Dixon brings up Multiplex – bringing together design, technology, fashion, film and interiors to explore how the future of retail might look, sound, smell, taste and feel.
At Teatro Manzoni he presented the collection of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

If Body Building (2015) examined power and beauty through the seemingly skin-deep subject of the human body and NO SEX (2016) addressed human psychology through the first basic element – sex, then the title of the 2017 project is a logical progression: GOD.

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